Michael Chertock

Chertock, Michael麦克·彻塔克，师从法朗克·韦恩斯托克(Frank Weinstock)，毕业于辛辛那提音乐艺术学院，彻塔克十一岁时便公开演出，十七岁更演出艰难曲目拉赫曼尼诺夫第三号钢琴协奏曲，并获得好评。另外他也获得许多大奖，1989年Joanna Hodges国际钢琴大赛首奖、1991年世界美国音乐奖学金协会钢琴大赛银牌、 1993年圣查理国际 
钢琴大赛大奖，甚至，他还于1986年获得布莱恩．克莱邦(Rildia B. O’Bryon Cliburn)奖学金。 
 
乐评家一般欣赏彻塔克的演奏风格为：亲切、优雅、细致、具年轻活力却又有节制。超过一百多场和管弦乐团演出的… 
 
1994年灌录的《银幕钢琴独奏金曲》(Cinematic Piano) 被美国唱片评鉴评为：美丽的演奏，丰富的琴音让听者如沐春风。 
 
这里的音乐皆选自一些抒情感人，甚至伤怀的影片，包括《辛德勒的名单》、《钢琴师和她的情人》、《此情可问天》、《金池塘》、《新天堂乐园》、《远离非洲》、《爱的故事》、《北非谍影》、《似曾相识》、《黑色豪门企业》、《性、爱情、汉堡包》，尤其是《辛德勒的名单》的音乐，以钢琴奏来丝丝入扣，动听无比。独奏者迈可?史尔塔克现任辛辛那提交响乐团首席钢琴独奏家，曾获多次世界性钢琴大赛首奖，纽约时报评其演奏充满自信，兼具狂野、趣味、及迷人等特性。20bit高解析度的录音，将史坦威钢琴的明亮丰润音质表露无遗。
 Pianist Michael Chertock has fashioned a successful career as an orchestral soloist, collaborating with conductors such as James Conlon, Jaime Laredo, Keith Lockhart, Erich Kunzel and Andrew Litton. His many orchestral appearances include solo performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, l’Orchestre Symphonique du Montreal, the Toronto Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Naples Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony, the Chattanooga Symphony, the Utah Symphony, the Oregon Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony and the Dayton Philharmonic. Chertock made his debut at the age of 17, performing the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 with Andrew Litton conducting. 
In January of 2005, Chertock performed Gershwin’s Concerto in F Major with Maestro Lockhart and the National Youth Orchestra of London. Chertock has toured Asia with the Boston Pops, and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. His 2003 performance on the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s recording of Petrouchka with Paavo Järvi turned in rave reviews in Gramophone and American Record Guide. Chertock made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1999 with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, performing Duke Ellington’s New World A’Comin’. In June 2005 with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Chertock performed the world premiere of a work by Todd Machover, commissioned by the Boston Pops expressly for Mr Chertock.
Claude Gingras of La Presse, Montreal, said of pianist Michael Chertock: “Chertock revealed himself as a first-rate pianist and an interpreter of noticeable interest through the freshness that he brought to these familiar scores....(he) displayed the sensitivity of a Chopin interpreter.” The Boston Globe has called his playing “unmannered, zestful, and lovely.” The Cincinnati Enquirer has described the Virginia native as “intelligent and disciplined...noble...finely finished...expressive and well-controlled.” The Salt Lake City Deseret News said “Chertock... is a musical performer with an immense technical command of the piano.” 
In 1994, Chertock released his first CD on the Telarc label, a collection of his original arrangements of music from movies entitled Cinematic Piano. American Record Guide said “(Chertock) plays beautifully, and Telarc’s lush sonics bathe the listener in an intoxicating wash of piano sonorities.” Cincinnati Enquirer critic Janelle Gelfand called it “one of the most gorgeous discs of the summer”, citing his “elegant techniques...just the right poetic tone.” The recording has sold more than 30,000 units worldwide. Since then, he has recorded three more discs with Telarc: Palace of the Winds, Christmas at the Movies and Love At the Movies, which have been praised for their lush, original arrangements and exquisite technical facility. 
Chertock began conducting in 2001 when he stepped in for Maestro Carmon De Leone in performances of Cincinnati Ballet’s The Nutcracker. Chertock is the conductor of the Blue Ash-Montgomery Symphony, located in suburban Cincinnati, Ohio, and he frequently composes and arranges music for the orchestra’s concerts. In 2008, he conducted the Columbus Symphony (Ohio) in performances of The Nutcracker with Ballet Met Columbus.
In June of 2004 Chertock was appointed Assistant Professor of piano at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, where he received his Master’s Degree as a student of Frank Weinstock. He has garnered numerous awards at major competitions, among them the top prize in the 1989 Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition (Brahms Division,) and the grand prize in the 1993 St. Charles International Piano Competition. He also shared the silver medal in the 1991 World Piano Competition of the American Music Scholarship Association. He received the Rildia B. O’Bryon Cliburn Scholarship in 1986.
Chertock makes his home in Cincinnati with his wife Maaike, son Joshua and daughters Maria and Janneke. Most Sundays you can find him playing piano and organ for services at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church.